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NEGRO ASSAILANT IS PUT TO DEATH%Angry Men Batter Down Door and Take Prisoner From Jail.OXFORD, Mitt., Sept 9.—A mob hammered Itt way Into the Jail here last night and . put to daath Lawton Patton, a negro, who attacked and then killed a Mr*. McMullen yetterday afternoon. Mr*. McMullen's .husband, who waa a prisoner at the Jail, tent the negro, a trusty, to hla home with a message to his wife and while there the attack was made.The sheriff abandoned the Jail to keep from being forced to give up the prisoner. but the mob broke In.Patton appeared to be drinking, or under the Influence of some drug when he called at the McMullen home at the outskirts of town. After delivering the metaage he refused ot leave.Mrs. McMullen suggested to her daughter that she get the gun and frighten him away, whereupon the negro slashed the mother .across the throat and grabbed the daughter. She escaped and the negro fled. Mrs. McMullen ran about two hundred yards and dropped dead. The alarm “-was given and neighbors and officers pursued the negro and captured him In a field. %
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Atlanta Georgian and News
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Wed, Sep 09, 1908
Page 15
Full Page
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Jennifer V.
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